Changes in preferences for life-sustaining treatment among older persons with advanced illness.

Although there was a trend toward a decline in the odds of participants’ willingness to accept low-burden therapy at a given likelihood of severe physical disability over time, this did not reach statistical significance Worsening in several measures of health and psychosocial status was associated with decreased willingness to endure high-burden therapy and/or risk adverse outcome to avoid death (Table 2 ).

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